capanegra: This is a great game, with a beautiful attack and counter-attack. It is also worth mentioning that if 13…♙f5x♘e4 14.♙e6x♙f7+ ♔f8 15.♘e6#.
But there is something I don’t get it. If Spielmann’s attack in the opening was sparkling as the books say, then why did he lose? I think the key moment is at move 19, when white has sacrificed a rook, but enjailed black’s queen. After that, Eliskases iniciates a tremendous counter-attack and knocks his opponent out. So, is all over for white at move 19, thus he should never have reached that position? Was the error committed when he lost time trying to capture the queen with 15.♙a4 and 16.♙a5? Or was he just bluffing?

Calli: Probably cannot analyze such a position to the end, but after c5 white would continue Ng7+ and Rf2 (to block the diagonal). Now the d pawn is protected because if cxd4 then Qxd4!. This works because if QxQ, he has the Ne6 fork. Anyway, my point being that Spielmann would be at home in such a situation.

Brown: Spielmann here plays the Geller Gambit by transposition, without an early a4, many years before its namesake came on the scene. In Geller's style, Spielmann would have done better by playing 11.Bh5 or 11.a4

Brown: Unbelievably, there may be at least a draw and maybe a win <!!!> found for white after <20.Ng5+ Bxg5 21.Bxg5 Rae8 22.Rf1+ Kg7 23.Qh4 h5 24.Bf6+ Nxf6 25.Qxf6 Kh7 <..Kh6 26.Rf5!>> with perpetual.

Stopping at this position, we see that black's king has only two defenders - two rooks - while white has a rook, bishop and queen in the attack. Black will need a move or two to bring the bishop and queen to the aid of the king or into some sort of counter-attack, namely with ..c5. So white could venture, after the above line with..

suenteus po 147: <I think they were drunk while conducting this brilliancy. They were drinking numerous kegs of XX.> This was game 7 of a ten game match between Spielmann and Eliskases played in Linz, Austria in 1932. Eliskases beat Spielmann by one point, with a final score of +3 =5 -2.

LIFE Master AJ: White appeared to have a winning attack at one point, after he trapped the Black Q, yet it all came undone on him somehow. (Incredible tactics here, must be lots of puzzles in this game!!! CG staff, are you paying any attention here?)

"Up to here Spielmann has calculated, as far as possible for humans but yet not far enough."

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